Annie Jacobsen

And that nation state happens to be nuclear armed.

And even today, people would demand consequences.

No, but I know about him from Tom O'Neill in the Chaos book, which is so awesome.

There was certainly not the same degree of an alert and knowledgeable citizenry in the 50s and 60s.

Everyone just took everything at face value.

And it is remarkable as a historian, and Tom O'Neill's work also speaks of that, to go back in time and look at that.

Part of just as interesting, perhaps, as the facts of the matter, like the Warren Commission, is to say,

How did everyone simply accept this as fact?

But then I think it's valuable to have the old look in the mirror moment and go, what is it today that we're not looking at?

What is it today that will be in 10, 20, 30 years from now?

I can't believe they were all falling for that concept.

That's the old you can't fix what you can't face concept.

It reminds me of the hypocrisy I feel and think about behind smoking.

Like I live in Los Angeles and in the city of Beverly Hills, you cannot smoke anywhere.

Like you will get a ticket if you smoke outside.

And I don't smoke, but to the point, you know, all you have to do is like research about, you think about creating the whole smoker's world.

You see those old ads from the 50s and 60s where the doctor, the OBGYN is smoking while they're visiting with the pregnant woman and encouraging her to smoke because it will make her relax.

Asthma cigarettes?

They did not.

They did not.